Hoi,
This makes perfect sense because Wikidata WANTS to use this information as
the source for statements.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 November 2013 02:12, billinghurst <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:27:02 +0100, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > About this:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:13 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Connecting new uploaded books with Wikidata: again this is very related
> >> to
> >> the above. As a first preparatory step, one GsoC of this year worked on
> >> using templates (like "commons:Template:Book") directly with the
> >> UploadWizard. It generates the form according to a template, which in
> >> turn
> >> could create both a Wikidata item and a Wikisource page when the
> uploaded
> >> file is a book. However this has been stalled due to this RFC on
> Commons:
> >>
> >>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/How_Commons_should_deal_with_TemplateData
> >>
> >
> > how this concerns us?
> >
> > Sorry, but I don't really understand this TemplateData issue.
> > Uploading books directly from Wikisource (entering all the important
> > metadata, that would go to Commons, Wikisource and Wikidata) is a
> crucial
> > *feature* that we absolutely need.
> > What is the problem, here, specifically?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Aubrey
>
> From my point of view, an upload form should be focused at Wikidata more
> than at Commons, anything else is back-to-front.
>
> If we are talking about a published work that it is published is its own
> "notability" and transcends whether it is at Wikisource, Commons, or
> Wikipedia, such that it is published makes it Wikidata-able (to coin a
> word). We can easily support this statement as copyright alone will prevent
> a work from appearing at Wikisource or WikiCommons, and similarly some
> published works may not be individually notable for Wikipedia, but may be
> so for other reference, thinking here of things that have a DOI.
>
> *Then* comes the issue of which site wishes to utilise the data. So
> having Wikidata as the primary entry point to enter "book" data, and then
> call it from other places as required seems the logical place to start for
> any new work at any of the places.
>
> Regards Billinghurst
>
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